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In recent years, individual housing is a kind of “silent revolution”. Increasingly, private homes, whether villas, farmhouses or country cottages — built two-and even three-storey. The desire is quite justified: the reduced building area, housing is made more compact, to the same tiered structure looks many cuter than located in a single plane.

 

However, multi-level house has a well-known feature — to get from one floor to another, the home must be equipped with ladders. Most often in our country are used for this purpose wooden straight stairs, They do not differ in the ease and attractiveness, however, due to the simplicity and plainness individual developer stops his gaze on them. Meanwhile, for the past many centuries successfully operated screw-down (or, as they are called, spiral) stairs. You can make them from almost any structural material, including from readily available wood and metal In this publication we introduce you to design spiral staircase, the materials which were published in the English magazine Practical Householder (“Practical homeowner”).

 

A spiral staircase is a decoration for your home! Unlike one – or multimid-flight wooden or metal structures, openwork spiral design, done with taste and respect for anthropometric standards, takes up minimal space in the premises and are sometimes organizing element of the layout of the dwelling. Look at the pictures — as you can see, spiral stairs significantly affects the design of the room in which it is located. But speech today not about it. The purpose of this publication is to acquaint readers with spiral staircases of various designs.

 

For starters — several geometrical parameters to be followed in the design and manufacture of spiral staircases. Thus, the width of a ladder March (excluding center column) should be not less than 600 mm, the average width of a step — 150 mm, minimum pitch “of the screw” (or if you want the height of steps per revolution) — not less than 2700 mm, height of stair handrail 840 mm, height of fence stair opening is 900 mm.

 

 

The main geometric dimensions of a spiral staircase

 

 

 

Solid wood construction is the most simple. In any case, in their manufacture does not require any welding or metal bending, nor his quite sophisticated processing can be done in a home workshop.

 

Here’s one of those ladders. Her steps are cut from boards with a thickness of about 50 mm, bushing-spacer defining the height of the steps — from round wood timber (logs) with a diameter of about 160 mm, the Entire Assembly into a single unit with the tie — a steel rod with a diameter of 10…12 mm, or a water pipe of suitable size, the ends of which are threaded. Pre-and in steps, and bushings drilled holes under the plate: during Assembly it is recommended to use epoxy glue.

 

Great care should be taken for installation of stair handrails. Of course, most will look turned balusters and carved from segments of the monolithic beam railing, but you can make them only good in carpentry. In home conditions, we can recommend the design and technology easier.

 

On each of the steps are cut square grooves of the same section that future stands (e.g., 50×50 or 60×60 mm). Then use epoxy glue and screws racks are fixed on two neighboring levels, each, connecting the most peripheral parts thereof into a single structure. Stand, if desired, you can decorate a simple thread or just make them square balusters.

A little bit harder to do rails, which is a spirally twisted bar. Here, perhaps, the most technologically advanced option. Made of plywood with a thickness of about 6 mm are cut strip width 80 mm (direction of the fibers of the outer layers of plywood — across the strip!) and workpiece are fixed with the outer and inner sides of the balusters on the screws and epoxy glue the Next cardboard or thin plywood cut pattern of Board thickness 20 mm cut elements to fill the groove between the plywood cheeks railings they are also Fixed with epoxy glue and screws.